Year 2 - Term 1

So far the second year has been more enjoyable than the first year. My 3d modeling has had to improve pretty quickly because of the difficulty of making a character model. My character designs have also improved massively compared to the rubbish one I did last year.

For my organic character design I chose fruit as a starting point. I went down to somerfield and bought a load of different fruit then cut them all up, took photos then left them in a tub to go moldy. I brainstormed several different ideas based on all the different shapes and patterns on the fruit. My final design is a creature that has characteristics of fruit like peeling skin.

For my mechanical character design I chose clocks as a starting point and my research led me to look at clock towers and gothic architecture. My design ended up being a sort of walking clock tower.

As far as the self portrait is concerned I've done 4 versions. The first one I did in a day without any reference photos and turned out suprisingly well for a first attempt at a character model. The second one didn't amout to much. The third one I've spent a rediculously long amount of time on. Being a massive perfectionist I'll spend a whole day working on the nose and it'll end up looking only slightly better than it did before. I really do take a very very long time doing things sometimes. When Ben Mathis was demonstrating how to start a model I was doing another version of mine along with him. I had the legs torso done in like half an hour and it looked pretty good so that helped me speed up a bit.

And as far as the blogs are concerned I've so far done none. I sort of been putting them off because ive been worrying more on the 3d modeling and character design. I thought i could do them once I got my other work out the way but it hasn't really been ideal. I'll definitely try and get going with them more frequently next term.